Picture : Lamine Yamal is the youngest player (19 years and 75 days old) to score against England at Wembley in a competitive match.
Nations League Statistics (Match-day 1, September 24-26)
England 2-3 Spain
*Spain extend their world record to 39 consecutive matches without a loss (30 wins, 9 draws).
Also, Spain go on their run of 40 competitive matches without a loss (33 wins and 7 draws) since the defeat against Scotland (0-2) on 22 March 2023.
*In the last 3 years, Spain have played against World Cup-winning national teams 9 games (all competitive) and won them all.
Here is this unprecedented streak.
20/06/2024 Italy 1-0 (Euro)
05/07/2024 Germany 2-1 (Euro)
09/07/2024 France 2-1 (Euro)
14/07/2024 England 2-1 (Euro)
05/06/2025 France 5-4 (NL)
27/06/2026 Uruguay 1-0 (WC)
14/07/2026 France 2-0 (WC)
19/07/2026 Argentina 1-0 (WC)
26/09/2026 England 3-2 (NL)
*Spain are the third national team in history to win two consecutive competitive matches against England at Wembley (also 2-1 win on 8 September 2018 in Nations League).
The other two:
Scotland (3-1 win on 9 April 1949 and 3-2 on 14 April 1951, both in British Home Championship),
Denmark (1-0 win on 21 September 1983 in Euro qualification and on 14 October 2020 in Nations League).
*Fabián Ruiz extended his world record streak: 51 matches with Spain and not a single defeat (36 wins, 15 draws).
*Lamine Yamal is the youngest player (19 years and 75 days old) to score against England at Wembley in a competitive match.
The previous record was held by Patrick Kluivert (19 years and 353 days) and dated back to Euro 1996.
*Yamal has scored the third quickest goal (at 1 minute 45 seconds) England have ever conceded at Wembley, behind only first minute goals:
for Hungary (Nandor Hidegkuti) on 25 November 1953,
for Scotland (Tommy Ring) on 6 April 1957.
*Yamal’s goal in the 2nd earliest goal under manager Luis De la Fuente in his 50 games, behind only:
Mikel Oyarzábal’s goal at 1 minute 41 seconds vs Peru in June 2026.
*Spain had not scored this early in a non-friendly match since October 12, 2005 (a goal by Antonio López after 53 seconds against San Marino in a World Cup qualifier).
*Álex Baena is the only player from any national team to have both scored and provided an assist in a competitive match at Wembley after coming off the bench in the last 20 years.
*Oyarzábal became the players who scored the 2nd most goals for Spain (25) under the same head coach (De la Fuente), surpassing Raúl (24 under Antonio Camacho).
David Villa with 41 goals under Vicente Del Bosque is far ahead.
Georgia 0-1 Northern Ireland
*Before this victory, Northern Ireland were the only one of 55 European national teams to have never won a Nations League away match.
Norway 3-2 Denmark
*Erling Haaland, by his brace, became the all-time top scorer for any Scandinavian national team (64 goals for Norway), surpassing Zlatan Ibrahimovic (62 for Sweden).
The next are Poul “Tist” Nielsen and Jon Dahl Tomasson (both 52 for Denmark).
Netherlands 1-1 Germany
*Netherlands fielded for the first time ever two players from non-European clubs in the same match: Crysencio Summerville (Al Hilal) and Tijjani Reijnders (Al Qadsiah).
Italy 0-2 Belgium
*Italy have lost a home match while conceding at least two goals without scoring any for only the second time in the last 40 years, following a 0–2 friendly defeat against Croatia on August 16, 2006.
Austria 3-1 Israel
*Austria have scored in each of their last 27 home matches, thereby equalling the national team’s record. The only previous time Austria scored in so many consecutive home games was between 1935 and 1951.
Turkey 0-1 France
*France have not scored in the first half of their last five matches.
*France have scored all their last 10 goals in the second half.
*Zinédine Zidane is the first head coach to win his debut match in charge of the French national team since Aimé Jacquet against Italy in 1994 (4 draws and 1 loss at the debuts in the interim).
*Kylian Mbappé scored his 12th goal for France in 2026, equalling the highest tally for France in a calendar year in the XXI century set by himself in 2022.
*Mbappé has now scored 31 goals as France’s captain, equalling Michel Platini’s national record.
*Michael Olise is the first player to provide 9 assists for France in a calendar year since Raymond Kopa in 1958 (also 9).
*Adrien Truffert made his second appearance for Les Bleus 55 matches after his debut.
This marks a record in the history of the French national team for the gap between a first and second cap.